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Waukesha

a city and county-seat of Waukesha co., Wis., on the Fox river, and on the Chicago and Northwestern, and the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St.

Paul and other railroads: 20 miles W. of Milwaukee. It contains Carroll College (Pres.), a high school, Keeley institute, the State Industrial School for Boys, electric lights, National bank, and several weekly newspapers. The city is chiefly noted for its wonderful springs of medicinal waters. It has bottling works, quarries of excellent building stone, extensive malleable iron work. Pop. (1910) 8,740; (1920) 12,558. an

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